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Provide common APIs in support of PDSE Member Generations - Part 2

See https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-3783 for part 1. Given that PDSE member generations are supported by some, and growing, IBM elements, it only seems reasonable to make it easy. Thus I'm rating this IDEA as...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Future consideration

PKI Services -RFC 8555 - Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)

PKI services actually implements the SCEP and EST protocol to Enroll Certificates of CISCO Routers. The Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol is a communications protocol for automating interactions between certificate autho...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / PKI 1 Future consideration

Support for CCM algorithm in SystemSSL

For TLS1.3 there are 5 official supported ciphers: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256TLS_AES_128_CCM_8_SHA256TLS_AES_128_CCM_SHA256 And zOS SystemSSL does not support:TLS_AES_128_CCM_8_SHA256TLS_AES_128_CCM_SH...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SSL 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF workflows and NCA to resolve system symbols

Currently z/OSMF does not resolve system symbols for tasks such as workflows and network configuration assistant, despite having the capability as described in the APAR PH41196. It would be very important that these features automatically resolve ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Archived workflows add user specified directory path to the API call

POST /zosmf/workflow/rest/<version>/workflows/<workflowKey>/operations/archive In the GUI it is possible to archive workflows to a specific directory. However in the API it don't see the same functionality. Add header where a path can ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

OAM access from C/C++

Similar to sample programs like CBROSR* we need a C/C++ interface program for accessing OAM.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

JES2 PERFDATA should be written as SMF records for improved usability

JES2 currently provides the results of collected performance statistics in the output of the $D PERFDATA command in many lines of $HASP660 sent to the console and consumable via review of syslog/operlog. The command provides several subscripts, $D...
7 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Capability to test OSA QDIO infrastructure (MAC and IP address) without IPL'ing a system.

We have run into multiple issues when we change out hardware, where OSAs are not operational when we go to move and operate from our DR site. We need the capability of testing OSA IP address and MAC connectivity to switches without IPL'ing a z/OS ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 2 Future consideration

Have one (instead of multiple) syntax rules for DEVSUPxx

The +-30 statements in DEVSUP are parsed using multiple (at least 2) sets of rules. e.g. some statements are limited to 4 blanks around the equal sign, while others have no limit. The Initialisation and Tuning Reference specifically says blanks ar...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 0 Future consideration

Need to see zCX information from SDSF (requires API)

Sysprogs need to see information about zCX address spaces from SDSF. This requires an API, so SDSF and other products can extract information. Information requested (provide information from the zCX joblog when zCX initializes - i.e. zCX type, ver...
6 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

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